Hosni, Hykel (2005) Rationality as conformity. Doctoral thesis, University of Manchester.
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Abstract
We address the problem of characterizing the choice processes of two like-minded yet non-communicating agents who intend to select, from a finite set of options, the same possible world. Hence, we call the resulting framework “Rationality-as-conformity” Within the scope of our formalisation, in which a choice problem is defined on non-empty subset of maps from a finite set A to the binary set {0, 1}, we introduce and investigate three distinct logico-mathematical characterisations of Rationality-as- conformity. Finally, we discuss the applicability of our framework to problems such as pure coordination games and radical interpretation which are traditionally related to “rationality”.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Doctoral) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Rationality, reasons, coordination, choice functions, radical interpretation, selection of multiple-Nash equilibria, social choice. |
| Subjects: | MSC 2010, the AMS's Mathematics Subject Classification > 03 Mathematical logic and foundations |
| Depositing User: | Dr Hykel Hosni |
| Date Deposited: | 12 Dec 2005 |
| Last Modified: | 20 Oct 2017 14:12 |
| URI: | https://eprints.maths.manchester.ac.uk/id/eprint/117 |
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